Add Maoism, Xi Thoughts, patriotism, nationalism, and a sprinkle of anti-Japanese stances to your curriculum, then worship and thank grandad Xi every day for providing such a perfect country, and you'd have a full course meal. Remember that the Party is always watching.
I've read through your earlier post and it doesn't really strike me as frightening or anything. It seems like standard kind of national mythology stuff that gets taught to kids no matter where they're from. What's the alternative? Is there a country on Earth that has an education curriculum amounting to "We suck and everything sucks. The government should be overthrown"?
Honestly what you described makes me kinda envious. It sounds cool, and it seems to have better outcomes. Kids in China outperform kids from my country in every metric from what I know, including stuff like understanding of civics, history, etc. Whereas when I was growing up I was told national mythology that makes excuses for genocide, like that pilgrims were friends with native americans, and that there were "kind" slave owners. I was continuously told the American Civil War was over a complex disagreement over civics, not slavery, and in fact the northern states started the war over jealously of the south's freedoms. The south which was a slave economy. I was told my state of Texas was justified in its war against Mexico for vague semblances of freedom and justice, even though the Texans were fighting to keep their slaves.
Add Maoism, Xi Thoughts, patriotism, nationalism, and a sprinkle of anti-Japanese stances to your curriculum, then worship and thank grandad Xi every day for providing such a perfect country, and you'd have a full course meal. Remember that the Party is always watching.
I've read through your earlier post and it doesn't really strike me as frightening or anything. It seems like standard kind of national mythology stuff that gets taught to kids no matter where they're from. What's the alternative? Is there a country on Earth that has an education curriculum amounting to "We suck and everything sucks. The government should be overthrown"?
Honestly what you described makes me kinda envious. It sounds cool, and it seems to have better outcomes. Kids in China outperform kids from my country in every metric from what I know, including stuff like understanding of civics, history, etc. Whereas when I was growing up I was told national mythology that makes excuses for genocide, like that pilgrims were friends with native americans, and that there were "kind" slave owners. I was continuously told the American Civil War was over a complex disagreement over civics, not slavery, and in fact the northern states started the war over jealously of the south's freedoms. The south which was a slave economy. I was told my state of Texas was justified in its war against Mexico for vague semblances of freedom and justice, even though the Texans were fighting to keep their slaves.